Pandemic

The COVID-19 lockdown meant a surge in remote work, and the trend toward remote and hybrid workplaces has persisted long after the pandemic receded. That has changed the nature of workplace management as well. Bosses can't check for butts in seats or look over their employees' shoulders in the office…

Much like table tennis during the pandemic, darts is now emerging as a go-to market for many operators, and Entain is no exception. Commenting on the vertical specifically, amid its broader results, Entain’s CEO, Stella David, noted that darts has indeed become one of the fastest-growing verticals for the company.…

By Julianne Geiger - Nov 20, 2025, 3:30 PM CST Russia’s largest oil producer just flashed a signal Moscow didn’t want to see: Rosneft is recommending its smallest interim dividend since the pandemic year of 2020. For a company that has spent the past two decades styling itself as a…

Long Covid Advocacy responds to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry’s second report on political governance and core decision-making. The report confirms what disabled people, chronically ill people, and Long Covid patients have known for years: the UK government’s pandemic response was too little, too late, and largely indifferent to the lives…

  Julie Rovner: Hello from KFF Health News and WAMU Public Radio in Washington, D.C., and welcome to “What the Health?” I’m Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, and I’m joined by some of the best and smartest health reporters in Washington. We’re taping this week on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 10 a.m. As always, news happens fast, and things might have…

SEN. Bong Go urged his colleagues to provide an additional P1.4 billion in the Department of Health’s (DOH) 2026 budget to fully settle the remaining unpaid Health Emergency Allowance (HEA) for health care workers who served at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.The appeal was made during the Senate plenary…

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Rural homebuyers need to earn $75,000 to afford the typical home, up from $36,000 before the pandemic. Suburban and urban areas have also seen affordability erode—but not as severely. The median home sale price in rural areas is up 61% from before the pandemic, compared with a 49% increase in…

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Home sellers outnumbered buyers by a record 36.8% in October, giving buyers who were in the market room to negotiate.  The number of buyers in the market dropped 1.7% to the lowest level on record aside from the start of the pandemic amid high housing costs and economic uncertainty. The…